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The Price We Pay

February 28, 2010 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Healthcare, Richard Nixon 

Writing at Psychology Today, Ira Rosofsky — a Connecticut psychologist — says that RN’s plan for health reform would have saved the American people $1 trillion per year:

And the Commonwealth Fund points to the price we are currently paying for not enacting comprehensive health care in the past. Richard Nixon had a plan for health care in the 1970s, and Bill Clinton in the 1990s. If we had enacted the Nixon plan-based on a cost reduction of 1.5 annually in costs-we could be spending $1 trillion less a year. Clinton’s plan would have saved us $500 billion annually.



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  1. Fred on March 2nd, 2010 6:15 am

    I am telling for years that RN was smart. But these figures affirm that former president Clinton was clever too. And did you know what RN said to Monica Crowly in 1993? “He is learning fast, isn’t he?”

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